Re-visiting the Mandala

Facilitator: Neha Bhat
NGOs: Doorstep School, Mumbai Mobile Crèches, Smile, and Vidya

August 18, 2012 | 10.00 am to 3.00 pm
Nalanda Center, Times Foundation, Mumbai

Through theatre games and visual art, the workshop will explore the form of the mandala which is a Sanskrit term for the circle or a discoid object. Children will speak about their daily experiences of the city through theatre games and then work on their own mandalas to externalize their feelings or imagine their lived spaces. The facilitator will then discuss each mandala to find out their meanings from the children, dealing with both schematic visual representations and psychophysical practices that mandalas represent.

Neha Bhatt is an artist, art psychotherapist, educator and counsellor working with marginalized communities in India and USA, and uses artistic practices to facilitate meaningful personal change.